Ati overdrive void warranty?

[jewii]

before you guys say search forums now, i've done my research. some people say's it does, others disagree so i'm here to get some opinions.

i got an awesome ocuk 2 year warranty and i don't want to void it.

theres 2 main software overclcokers for the 5000 series, my research had let believe

CCC over-drive

and

MSI overburner

Do they both Void the warranty or what? my card is XFX branded.

but the warranty is covered by OCUK.
***EXCLUSIVE Premium Priority 2 Year Warranty***

In the unlikely event of your card failing within 2 Years, OcUK will replace your card with a brand new one, pending testing within our standard RMA terms and conditions (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/support.php)

it says nothing about overclocking.

 

[Orcvader]

Usually overclocking voids warrenty depending on the manufactor, but they have no way of finding out that you've overclocked

 

[Mattyjw]

I think it'd be more of a deny,deny,deny situation, as long as you don't modify the hardware i'm not sure there's anyway to prove that you've broken the terms of the warranty.

I know when i called Sony about my playstation they tried to claim it was because of using a third party peripheral which is obviously BS. Sensible Overclocking should never destroy a card unless it was faulty in the first place in which case never admit to overclocking ever.

 

[Cleeecooo]

(Might have) Overclocked my xfx 5850 using overdrive for a couple of min at the top oc supported. Everything ( might have) ran smoothly and card barely overheated. It should be fine. Although my card is currently in the rma process! Never admit to overclocking

 

[straxusii]

If they refused the RMA due to overclocking I'd take them to the small claims court, I can't see how they can refuse RMA due to you using software that they bundled with the card!

 

[jewii]

well, i use macro's when a game. so i'm able to use macro key's to select gpu profile so i up the fan speed and overclock only when i game.

if they could leave memory speed default when idle like they do with the clock speed

 

[Blue160]

As above ^. you can't clock that high using CCC and you can't adjust voltages (unless it's changed since I switched to nvidia) so you should be fine anyway.

 

[jewii]

As above ^. you can't clock that high using CCC and you can't adjust voltages (unless it's changed since I switched to nvidia) so you should be fine anyway.

thanks for the comment. i've overclocked before but it was always with 2nd hand so i didn't really care about voiding a non-existant warranty .

anyway you can adjust with the msi overclcok which seems to work with all brands of cards.

 

[j.col]

as other answers, you will be safe overclocking.

only 2 reasons i can think of that will void warranty.

undoing any screws on the card ( i wanted to change the paste on my XFX hd4770, and they told be i would void the warranty if i tampered with the card)

fashing the bios, but then you could all flash back to original bios

CCC come bundled with the card, and overdrive is built in, its as if they are encouraging you to overclock.

i use msi afterburner as well, i just ramp it up before playing a game

 

[Freddie1980]

You can overclock to the default limits in ccc so AMD does allow you to overclock to a point however if bypass or hack the 900 mhz limit that's when you void the warranty.